lode en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Meanings
- (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
- (dialectal) A watercourse.
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A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.
1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14:
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(broadly) A rich source of supply.
In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.
2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lodes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
lodesman · lodestar · lodeship · mother lode
Descendants
Relateds
Translations (33)
fr filon (vein of metallic ore) · bg залеж (vein of metallic ore) · sh zlatna žila (rich source of supply) · ca bei (vein of metallic ore) · hu telér (vein of metallic ore) · bg жила (vein of metallic ore) · cs rudná žíla (vein of metallic ore) · bo གཏེར་ཁ (rich source of supply) · ka ძარღვი (vein of metallic ore) · el φλέβα (vein of metallic ore) · bo གཏེར་ཁ (vein of metallic ore) · fi suoni (rich source of supply) · el πηγή (rich source of supply) · he עוֹרֵק (vein of metallic ore) · da åre (vein of metallic ore) · de Goldgrube (rich source of supply) · ga lód (vein of metallic ore) · es montón (rich source of supply) · ja 鉱脈 (vein of metallic ore) · it filone (vein of metallic ore) · ga síog (vein of metallic ore) · fi suoni (vein of metallic ore) · ru жи́ла (vein of metallic ore) · pl żyła (vein of metallic ore) · mk жи́ла (vein of metallic ore) · fi malmisuoni (vein of metallic ore) · da guldgrube (rich source of supply) · es veta (vein of metallic ore) · sh žila (vein of metallic ore) · es filón (vein of metallic ore) · ca filó (vein of metallic ore) · hu ércér (vein of metallic ore) · de Ader (vein of metallic ore)